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Hadith 13

الأربعون للشاه ولي الله الدهلوي

The 13th of the 40 hadiths gathered by Shah Waliullah ad-Dehlawi in Shah Waliullah's Forty Hadith, given below in the original Arabic with an English translation and its reference.

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  1. 13Shah Waliullah's Forty Hadith

    مَا قَلَّ وَكَفَى خَيْرٌ مِمَّا كَثُرَ وَأَلْهَى

    A little that suffices is better than an abundance that distracts

Sunni collections: text from the open hadith-api dataset. Al-Kafi: Arabic text, Muhammad Sarwar's translation and gradings from Thaqalayn.net via the Thaqalayn API. Hadith numbering follows those editions and can differ from a printed copy — check the Arabic against a trusted edition before relying on a reference.